Darlina
Darlina was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 149 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darlina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darlina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,883, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1961, the peak
Darlina peaked in 1961, when 9 girls were given it, #4,609 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #16,883 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,928 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,454 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,752 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,468 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,846 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,642 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,866 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,691 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,707 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 7 | #6,702 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,241 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,397 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,696 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,608 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,958 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,609 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,266 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,332 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,762 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,731 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,464 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,950 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,467 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darlina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darlina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darlina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darlina, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Darlina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 43 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Darlina (297 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 213,916 babies since 1880, Darlina is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 119 babies recorded by SSA was a Darlina (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darlina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darlina and names like it
- Compare Darlina and DarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarlina peaked in 1961.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Darlina.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darlina alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.